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Walter Lear lecture notes, 1943.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Lear, Walter J. (Walter Jay), 1923-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--United States.
- Medical care.
- United States.
- Physicians--Political activity--United States.
- Physicians--Political activity.
- Physicians.
- Genre:
- Lecture notes.
- Manuscripts, American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gift of Walter J. Lear, 2005.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) ; 74 x 17.2 cm
- Place of Publication:
- 1943.
- Biography/History:
- Founder, Institute of Social Medicine and Community Health.
- Summary:
- Notes from the October 1943 lecture that was Lear's introduction to medical activism, on the back of a poster for performances of the Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Speakers Morris Fishbein, of the Postwar Planning Committee of the AMA, and J. Peters, of the Physicians' Committee to Improve Medical Practice, addressed the state of medicine and medical care in the United States.
- Notes:
- Forms part of: U. S. Health Activism History Collection.
- OCLC:
- 182941394
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